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Apprentice Recruitment Consultant

Manchester
£19.5k/yr
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Level 3 Recruitment Consultant Apprentice

Swarm Training is working with EQ Group in their search for a Level 3 Recruitment Consultant apprentice. This is a great opportunity for individuals interested in joining a dynamic, supportive, friendly and fun team environment in a rewarding industry. This role offers the possibility to grow, earn and go up to senior manager in future years.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • Sourcing and selecting candidates
  • Thoroughly reviewing candidate CVs
  • Screen and shortlist candidates by assessing their suitability for the role
  • Ensuring compliance processes have been carried out on all applicants. This includes checking qualification certificates, submitting DBS check applications and submitting Right to Work verification checks
  • Admin duties such as data entry, organising electronic candidate files, sending candidate/client emails and data collection
  • Answering telephone enquiries
  • Get involved with business development and help to grow new business

Where you'll work

1 Silk Street
Manchester
M4 6LZ

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

SWARM TRAINING C.I.C.

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

  • Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
  • Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
  • Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
  • Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
  • Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
  • Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
  • Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
  • Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
  • Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
  • Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
  • Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
  • Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
  • Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
  • Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
  • Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
  • Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
  • Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
  • Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
  • Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
  • Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
  • Manage resources within budget requirements.
  • Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.

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Training will be with Swarm Training, a national provider of apprenticeships throughout the UK. The successful candidate will work towards the Level 3 Recruitment Consultant apprenticeship; this apprenticeship will take between 12 - 18 months to complete with assessments.

The apprentice is required to complete a minimum of 6 hours per week during working hours, working towards achieving the qualification. A tutor will conduct training sessions once a month, where the apprentice will be allocated tasks to be completed during working hours.

Essential qualifications

  • GCSE or equivalent in:
    • English (grade 4/C)
    • Maths (grade 4/C)

Desirable qualifications

  • GCSE or equivalent in:
    • ICT (grade 4/C)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

EQ Group

EQ Group partners with ambitious recruitment founders to build exceptional businesses through world-class systems, technology and operational excellence. What compounds is the shared engine underneath: technology, data, back office and one operating standard across every brand.

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Your earnings

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.

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The company

The company is growing in the UK and Internationally and looking for emerging recruitment talent.

  • Full-time position available after successfully completing the apprenticeship.
  • This role offers the possibility to grow, earn and go up to senior manager in future years.

Contact

The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SWARM TRAINING C.I.C.

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052179.

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Skills

recruit employees
assess candidates
ensure compliance with company regulations
fill out forms
file documents
gather data
answer incoming calls
develop business plans
communication
identify digital competence gaps
attend to detail
teamwork principles
show initiative

Location

One Silk St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6LZ, UK

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